I would just like to share an experience I had with a person that claimed that she occasionally could communicate and/or feel the presence of certain dead relatives.
First of all, let me begin by saying that up to about 5 years ago I was a hard line skeptic (of everything), however in the last few years of my life, the sum of a number of experiences have changed the way I think and feel about numerous aspects of life. I may elaborate on this in future posts that I would like to put out there about the other experiences.
Anyway.....
Basically a client at work told me the name of my girlfriend with no possible previous knowledge of her. She claimed that her deceased brother told her to tell me this bit of information.
In a previous meeting with her, she mentioned that she occasionally would feel the presence of her brother, and he would give her bits of information and guidance at times. One interesting thing that she had mentioned was that when she felt the presence, she could smell the cologne that he would wear.
At this point in my life I was becoming much more open to concepts such as this, thus I found her "story" intriguing.
On a subsequent meeting, perhaps a few months later, I asked if she had been contacted by any relatives lately. She said, just by coincidence, that she had been in contact with her brother that very day. A minute or two later, she said, "Do you know a person named L?" (just using "L" to not use real names). I paused, and was a bit taken back by what she said. Before I could reply, she said, "this is a personal relationship, not a client or business related." Followed by, "he (her brother) just told me to tell you that to let you know he is here and he is real..."
So naturally the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I didn't know what to say. But since that time I have had a paradigm shift in what may be possible and how I think.
Before anyone asks, my girlfriend, and I were only together about 3 months at that time. She was from far out of town (long distance relationship at the time) and no one knew her from the area. The circumstances of the relationship caused us to keep our relationship rather quite at the time. No resources on Facebook or twitter could possibly have been used to track down any personal information about myself. I always keep my personal life and professional life separate, and never once had contact with this person outside of the office.
Regardless, this experience was was really profound and life changing for me and I thought I would just share it with you guys.

Great story! It is actually very common for paranormal experiences or contact to be associated with scent. For example: My grandfather always smoked cigars most of his adolescent and adult life. After he passed away, I would sometimes feel like someone was watching me (or once I even heard a hacking cough that sounded like his, again the cigars lol) and with every experience, out of nowhere would come the heavy fragrance of his awful cigars.